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A 35-year-old British man who was assaulted by two fellow Britons on the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos last week has died, local media reported on Thursday.

The unnamed man died at the capital's Attikon hospital, where he had to be airlifted after sustaining serious head injuriesy during a fight at a bar in the seaside party resort of Laganas.

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Bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo. View from north, 2014. Photo: Wikimedia/Pudalek

Four people were killed in two road accidents on Sunday morning.
Three people - two men and a 16-year-old girl - were killed in the area of Panagiouda on the Aegean island of Lesvos when two motorcycles collided.
Meanwhile in Neohori, near Mesolongi, western Greece, an army conscript was killed in a road accident.

The image of Greek government officials standing in a freshly delivered yet motionless metro car during yet another "unveiling" of the still under-construction subway system in the northern port city of Thessaloniki is rich in political context.

Opponents of abortion in mainly Catholic Croatia on Saturday joined "Walks for Life" in the eastern city of Osijek and in Rijeka in the west.

A team of seismologists from the Athens National Observatory's Geodynamic Institute has been dispatched to the areas of Ileia and Achaia in the Peloponnese following the succession of aftershocks that have followed a 4.9-magnitude quake off the coast of Katakolo on Monday.

A 60-year-old French woman died on Thursday after falling off a cliff in Crete, while trekking on the E4 European long distance Path towards Aghios Pavlos in Chania.
The woman reportedly slipped and fell 10 meters from the cliff, according to local media.

Leading British tour operator Thomas Cook announced this week that it has acquired two new properties in Greece, which will take its total number of hotel units in this country to four.
The operator has bought out Casa Cook Kos, a 100-room unit that it has been operating on the Dodecanese island and which has been the most profitable unit bearing the company's name.

A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook the port town of Kyllini in western Greece on Wednesday.

According to the Athens' Geodynamic Institute, the tremor, whose epicenter was 10 kilometers east of Kyllini, was recorded at a depth of 8 kilometers.

No injuries or damages were reported.

Sixty-three migrants were rescued in two separate operations in the eastern Aegean on Tuesday, the Greek coast guard said in an announcement.

The first operation concerned a motorized rubber dinghy that was sailing off the northeast coast of Samos in the early hours of Tuesday, carrying 34 people on board.